Most Admired Companies: Coke No. 6 on FORTUNE's 2014 List

Coca-Cola has made its fifth consecutive top 10 appearancein FORTUNE’s
annual ranking of the World’s 50 Most Admired Companies, coming in at No. 6 on the 2014 list.

The company also topped the study’s beverage industry
ranking (up from No. 2 in 2013) and ranked No. 2 on the global
competitiveness list.

Apple topped the overall list, widely considered to
be the definitive report card on corporate reputation, for the seventh
consecutive year. The top five was rounded out by Amazon, Google, Berkshire
Hathaway and Starbucks. See the full 2014
rankings.

FORTUNE’s survey
partners at Hay Group started with about 1,400 companies: the 1,000 largest
U.S. companies ranked by revenue and non-U.S. companies in FORTUNE’s Global 500
database with revenue of $10 billion or more. These companies were sorted by
industry, with the largest 15 selected for each international industry and the
largest 10 for each U.S. industry. From this group, 692 companies from 30
countries were surveyed.

To create the 57 industry lists, Hay asked executives,
directors and analysts to rate companies in their industry on nine criteria,
from investment value to social responsibility.

To arrive at the top 50 Most Admired Companies overall, the
3,920 respondents were asked to select the 10 companies they admired most from
a list of the companies that ranked in the top 25% in last year’s survey, plus
those that finished in the top 20% of their industry. Anyone could vote for any
company in any industry.

The full rankings were announced today and will appear in the March 17, 2014 issue of FORTUNE.